Material-handling apparatus.



W. T. JAMES,

MATERIAL HANDLING APPARATUS, APPLIQATION FILED MAR. so, 1908.

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W. T. JAMES.

MATERIAL HANDLING APPARATUS.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 30, 1908.

Patented Jan. 21, 1913.

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WILLEAM 'n- JAMES, or'cmcnoo, ILLINOIS.-

IVZATERIAL-HANDLING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

iP-atent-ed Jan. 21, was.

Application filed March 30, 1908. Serial N 0. 424,242.

To all whom "it may cancer/1.:

'Be it known that l, \ViLnIAM '1. JAMES, a citizen of the United States, residing at (lhimgo, in the county of Cool; and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and use ful Linn-moments in Material-Handling Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to the provi-- sion of a certain improved form ot'iuaterial handling apparatus wherein provision is made tor the storage of coal and other mate rial, its conveyance from a point adjacent the delivery track, to such storage means, and also in cansfor distributing the mate rial and afterward for delivering it to other vehicles or in other places where it is to be used.

'lhenovelty resides in the particular construction ano arrangement of parts all as more fully hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which Figure 1 indicatesan elevation partly in section, of an improved apparatus eu1bodying my invention; Fl 2 is a transverse section through the same onthe line 11-11 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a plan section; Fig. l indicates a detail of the carrier bucket mechanism and the tripping device; Fig. '5jis another elevation of the same; Fig. 6 shows the sprocket wheel at the upper end of the conveyor chain, and Fig. 7 is' a side view of the ap niratus shown in Fig. 6.

Referring now more particularly to Figs. 1, 2, andd, it will be seen that in carrying out nay invention 1 provide a plurality of storage blrs or pockets nuu'ibered respectively from to l3 and located inside of a building with'openings leading inward to said pockets from chutes which are without the hnilding and extend, as shown clearly in Fig. i, in an inclined direction cithcrway from acontral elevating orconv n5; nieehanism, at various dil'l'ercnt heig its, as indicated for example in the pin es niailted 1-; to Zlinclusivc. As a means for determining the bin or pocket into which the material is to be delivered by this niechaui a, I provide a plurality of openings extending laterally in i'roni the chutes, indicated at 22, 23, and 24-, .t'or example. in the lowermost chute on the right side or Fig. l, and in order to provide or the (lelivery of the n'iaterial in the first instance when the bins empty near the bottom of the same, the bottom of the bin being arranged of course on an in: cline as indicated in Fig. 2, I provide a series of inlet openings indicated at 25 and 26 and arranged so that after the material has tilled into the bin at a'point up to about Where the line 25 is placed, it can then be diverted into the chute immediately ahoveand delivered through the opening 26, and in neither case will it have very far to fall in finding its resting place.

As a convenientnieans for switching or determinino the direction of delivery I iarovide suitable doors preferably pivoted and arranged as indicated at 27, in Fig. 3, and in order to control the openings into the bins or pockets 1 provide vertically slidable gates 28 as also shown in Fig. 3, by which any desired opening may be closed at any time, or. opened, as required, and, by which also the apertures maybe kept 'closed to avoid the entry of: moisture or rain, or other elements injurious to the material stored.

As a specific means for conveying the material 1 provide buckets 31 of the character shown clearly in Figs. at and 5, having stop flanges or projections 30 adapted to cooperate With a projecting lever carrying a roller in its end, indicated at 29, which stop lever or trip device may be moved out of position as shown in dotted lines in Fig. lflvhen it is desired to have the bucket trip at another position.

The conveyer is arranged to pick the ma tcrial up from a bin 36' located at the base thereof in positionto I'GCBlVQ thG material through a chute extending into'said bin from beneath the cars which are grun in on a track 37, While at the opposite side of the storage structure, I provide suitable d elivery spouts as indicated at 38, which may be'utilized for leading wagons or other conveyances intended distribution of the. material. The, power is preferably supplied by SOME/01113 of motor dsviceas indicated at 39, operating the shaft do which carries the sprocket at upper end of a conveyer 1 ti e c: in.

A stop indicated in 4: and 5, and the two up:

in: t trip levers 29 mounted on a cross shaft; 29 so they may be oscillated together conveniently.

The bucket 31 is carried on convenient trunnion support 31 in chain links 32, the upper end whereof is formed'of a forked or bifurcated. shape as indicated at 83, and the 31* is provided "for the bucket lower end issingle or plain as shown at 34, to engage the bifurcated end of the next succeeding link member, the two being held to gether by suitable bolts as shown at in Fig. 5.

Having thus described my invention and ing inward tosaid pockets, chutes outside said inclosur'e and extending inclinedly at different heights and in opposite directions, and elevating mechanism arrahged to deliver material between the adjacent ends of said chutes.

2. A material handlingapparatlf s oom prising in combinations plurality of receiv ing pockets, there being openings leading inward to said pockets, chutes outside said inclosure and extending inclinedly at different heights and in opposite directions, elevating mechanism atanged' to deliver material between the adjacent ends of said chutes, the bottoms of said pockets being inclined, and means whereby the material maybe delivered to the lowermost pocket first, and to the others in succession.

3. A material handling device comprising a plurality of pockets, inclined chutes extend ng opposite direetions from the median line of said pockets, the discharge ends of said chutes emptying into said poekets at a plurality of points, a conveying mechanism arranged to deliver material at points adjacent the adjacent ends of said chutes, and switehingmeans for determining the direction and point of delivery of the material.

4i Annaterial handling device comprising a plurality of pockets, inclined chutes eX- tanning in opposite directions from the median. line of said pockets, the discharge ends 0i said chutes emptying into said pockets at a plurality of points, a conveying mechanism arranged to deliver material at points adjacent the adjacent ends of 111g means for each chute being independent of the others.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of the two subscribing witnesses.

W'ILLIAh I T. JAMES. Witnesses PAUL CmrEN'rnn. G. W. CUNNINGHAM.

said chutes a switching means tor deternnmng the diree 

